St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-19
TRAVELLER HAS HIS SAY.
He Talks Interestingly About the
Mileage Books and the Hotels.

! notice an article in the travellers
column of Saturdays Tribune speaking
disparagingly of the 5000 mileage book
on the ground that it would necessitate
the expenditure of 500 for each COM
mercial traveller, and thus be burden
to the commercial world and yeritable
plum pudding to the railroads. 1 think
the writer of the article must have
given the subject but little thought and
travelled less. Each commercial traveller
travels from 1000 to 1900 miles month
and his travels are seldom confined to
one road, and are often over three or
more roads. At the present time he is
obliged to buy from two to four mile
age books, at an expense of from
S25 to $40 each. In many cases
the bulk of his travel is over one road,
with a possible 100 miles over two other
roads once month, which ObligeS him
to carry two mileage books nearly year
before using, thus causing the idleneSS
of that amount of money all that time,
while if he had a 5,0O0-mile book good
over all roads he would at least have to
carry but a small portion of this amount
over sixty days. So it can be easily seen
that there is economy in the 5,000-mile
book, besides doing away with the in
convenience of carrying pocket full of
mileage books. l also notice that the
same brilliant writer has taken the 3d.
600 L. p. AS in hand and proposes to
teach them a new language pc
culiarly his own, thus winning
laurelS for himself and evolving there
from man of many failures resurrected
from the slough of dependency into
which his own acts have plunged him,
so that in the near future he can reach
out his hand and pluck the plum as the
able manager of an organization where
the poor, deluded G.. Il. can deposit his
surplus revenue and feel, if he never
sees it again, that he has at least made
an effort at economy and feel it a com
mendable act to have contributed his
mite toward the commercial education
of a fellow c. T. The Tribune writer
has succeeded in insulting man who
has filled his position with honor TO
himself and to those whose judgment
discerned in him leader who has
served the association two years
without recompense, and who think
must have labOred in the dark and with
out fuel or shelter so far as the aSSOcia-
ton is concerned, as | see no charges
for the same in the expenses of the as
ISOLATION; and | suggest that it is nearly
time he retaliated on the writer of that
cowardly attack with weapons at his
command and state facts, not fancies.
The hotels are receiving considerable at
tention and number of them should
receive more. A number of the critics
are so manifestly personal that the eff
feet of their criticism is lost. | think
that when we criticise we should at the
same time point out the particular fail
ingS of the management and avoid per-
sonal motive, as the commercial travel
ers have their cranks as well as any
other class of people. We cannot all
have the best room in the house, and
some of us think we are misused be-
cause we are late. There are few
hotels, however, like the Sherman of
Aberdeen, where the boys are unit.
In such cases the officers of the L. 7. A.
should cause circular to be sent to
each member to avoid the house and
make another house of the town head
quarters. Let us hear from the hotel
committee on the subject. think they
will be backed by the commercial trav-
elerS.
Since prohibition is the order of the